| Challenge: | chit-chat neural models lacking specificity and coherence, argues a new study on stance-based personas . stancebased personal representations lack generalization capability, allowing agents to sustain personal points of view both within the same conversation and across different discussions. |
| Approach: | They propose to investigate stance-based persona representations and their impact on claim generation by using a conversational dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that stance-based personas grasp abstract and profound aspects of the author persona. |
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